My Minnesota

Last night, in honor of the summery weather and the turning of the month, we enjoyed slices of the first ice cream cake of the season. It hi...

It’s actually starting to seem like Spring here in the North Country. Once again the snow has melted and, come midweek next, overnight low t...

As of 7:43 this morning, local time, we are into full autumn, if not fully into autumn. The equinox has occurred but the season has not matu...

According to our copy of the Minnesota Weather Guide , the normal high temperature this week is 82℉ and next week it’s 81℉. The ten-day fore...

Once again I went fishing with my not-quite-four-years old Granddaughter and her Dad, my Son-In-Law. Once again she outfished me. This time ...

Thanks to an invitation from the Son-In-Law and Granddaughter, I went fishing yesterday. My (not quite 4 year old) Granddaughter outfished m...

Today had been forecast to be cooler and wetter, so we made up some sourdough to bake. Today has turned out to be partly cloudy and quite wa...

It’s finally stopped raining long enough for me to do a second grass cutting of the season in the back yard. I was also going to mow our dit...

I’m not happy with the presumed choices in presidential candidates this election, but the odds are strongly against my vote going anywhere e...

It’s wonderful that I have a stack of books to be read because we’re forecast to get almost an inch and a half of rain tomorrow and rain dai...

According to a couple of sources, we may, or may not, get an isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. As I thought about it, if the forecast sa...

Dame’s rocket is now blooming, as is our patch of lilies of the valley. Yesterdays rain has been followed by today’s gusty winds. This sprin...

It’s time to watch for the blooms of trillium in roadside woodlands. Some of this year’s flowers and birds have arrived about on time, other...

A month or so ago, the crowns of trees around the house were all bare and skeletony looking. Now they’re mostly filled in, or out, as you pr...

As I hope you know already, April is National Poetry Month . If you’re a repeated reader of this blog, you may have noted that I’m a trout f...

We got a bunch of water in celebration of today. Unfortunately, it came as flakes, not drops, and we were the recipients of more than twice ...

The Irish soda bread has been baked, and partially consumed. Corned beef and cabbage are on the back burners of the stove. I’m wearing a dar...

Our temperatures are consistently running above “normal” while precipitation is sparse to nonexistent. This is likely to present complicatio...